Bachelor Thesis - Energy and Environmental Engineering

Aim

This course aims at developing the student’s abilities to analyse organizations from energy, environmental and managerial perspectives with a broad approach. Special attention is paid to integration of knowledge from these three fields in order to draw conclusions about appropriate measures to increase the organization’s resources efficiency and sustainability. Appropriate in this case is defined as: environmentally motivated, economically feasible and technically and organizationally possible to implement. Attention is also paid to the student’s ability to appropriately document and communicate important findings to the organization.

After completing the course, students should be able to:

• Formulate and carry out an organization-oriented investigative project in a group, and individually report on the group's work and conclusions.
• In a group suggest, motivate and evaluate technical and organizational solutions aimed to improve the organization’s energy/environmental/sustainability performance, perform analyses of uncertainties and individually describe the group’s work and conclusions.
• Plan, perform and document a thesis at bachelor level.
• Critically assess and discuss a written and orally presented bachelor thesis.
• Reflect on the experiences and learnings gained via the thesis work completed at bachelor's level.

Content

The course includes several parts that lead to an integrated analysis of an organization from an energy, environmental and/or sustainability perspective.

Furthermore, the course content is individually decided for reach project group and pair of thesis authors in cooperation with examiner, subject experts and/or supervisors.